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Max Pechstein
Don't Strangle the Newborn Freedom Through Disorder and Fratricide, Otherwise Your Children Will Starve1919

Not on view
Lithograph poster with hand-lettered German text surrounding a bold ink drawing of a standing infant gripping a large orange triangular flag
Artist or Maker
Max Pechstein
Germany, 1881-1955
Publisher
Werbedienst der deutschen Republik
Germany, 1918-1919
Title
Don't Strangle the Newborn Freedom Through Disorder and Fratricide, Otherwise Your Children Will Starve
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1919
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 39 1/4 × 26 5/8 in. (99.7 × 67.63 cm) Image: 38 × 25 3/4 in. (96.52 × 65.41 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection, Beverly Hills, CA
Accession Number
M.2003.115.45
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
Selected Exhibition History
  • Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023
  • Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023